My Gaze///Yr Gaze: margaret tedesco presents the spirit of the beehive

my gaze///yr gaze returns on sunday june 5th at 6pm. our film selector this time out is the wildly talented artist & curator margaret tedesco presenting the 1973 film El espíritu de la colmen (The Spirit Of The Beehive), directed by Victor Erice preceded by Jerks Don't Say Fuck (Zhao Liang, 2000) Sunday June 5th, 2016, 6pm Alley Cat Books 3036 24th St, SF 94110 free & open to the public El espíritu de la colmen (THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE) Widely regarded as the greatest Spanish film of the 1970s, Víctor Erice’s spellbinding The Spirit of the Beehive (El espíritu de la colmena), is a visually poetic, haunting, and allegorical film on innocence, illusion, and isolation and one of the most cinematic arresting films ever made. The Spirit of the Beehive is a deceptively lyrical tale of idyllic childhood memories and a disturbing portrait of isolation. Like the bees in Fernando's experiments, the children are also unwitting subjects of an unnatural, artificial environment. Produced as Franco’s long regime was nearing its end — a bewitching portrait of a child’s haunted inner life. JERKS DON'T SAY FUCK It's my greeting for the 50th anniversary of my motherland. Jerks Don’t Say Fuck. This is not a place where you can speak freely. There must be somebody monitoring you from a dark corner. Just like me: talking nonsense. —Excerpt from Cityzooms, Up and Coming Hannover Film Festival catalog, May 2000 /// artist and curator margaret tedesco's work includes performance, photography, sculpture, and video. tedesco has presented and collaborated with visual and performance artists, writers, and filmmakers for over 25 years. in 2007 she established the artist-run project space [ 2nd floor projects ]. /// my gaze///yr gaze is curated by irwin swirnoff. it's a queer film series that happens on the first sunday of the month at alley cat books in the mission in san francisco. the series is always free and believes in the importance of creating spaces for queer community and culture that isn't about money or commerce.